Microsoft has already stopped supplying most versions of Windows 7 to retailers. If you've come to this review because you're thinking of buying a new PC with Windows 7 pre-installed, you'll have to hurry. The OS is still surprisingly popular – it remains the number one desktop operating system in the world, used on almost half of all PCs out there: 47% to be precise, with Windows 10 on 23% in the latest stats we've seen. security updates) will end on 14 January, 2020.Įven though mainstream support has ended, you can still buy a PC running Windows 7 (or at least downgrade rights to Windows 7). In terms of support, Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 7 in January 2015. So November's rollup will include the fixes from October, and so on going forward.Ī complete list of downloads available for the 10 versions of Windows 7 can be found here (opens in new tab). (Microsoft did the same thing for Windows 8.1 PCs as well.)Īnd from October, instead of separate hotfixes, Microsoft is implementing a 'monthly rollup' patch that contains all of the latest updates – plus previous ones – rolled up into a single package. This will update a Windows 7 SP1 PC with over five years' worth of patches in one shot, so with a fresh installation, you no longer have to sit through round after round after round of applying updates and rebooting.
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